YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
There's nothing as good as knowing the health
condition of whatever goes into your mouth straight to your stomach. Often
times, what you buy (From
manufactured ingredients to artificial or diluted items and cheap stuff) and eventually take in aren’t pretty much
what you think it is. Almost all the foods we eat are either or adulterated.
Many
of the food items we consume in Nigeria are either adulterated or preserved using chemicals or produced
and stored under sub-standard conditions. Some of the popularly consumed
adulterated food items are palm oil, cow pea (beans), honey, grinded pepper, and
fruits.
PALM OIL
Most
of the palm oil sold in several Nigerian cities are adulterated and of low
quality. Some sellers of palm oil add
colourants, liquids and other chemicals to increase the volume and make it more
attractive and appealing to buyers. This means that many times when you think
you must have bought a good quality by virtue of its bright red colour, the
reverse is often the case. Other times, the poor quality palm oil is as a
result of poor processing technique and handling in the mills. The big problem
is how to identify adulterated palm oil when buying; adulterated palm oil turns
whitish when heated up but you can’t test it till you get home.
COW PEA (BEANS)
Most
beans sold in Nigerian market are chemically treated using toxic pesticide and
herbicides which find their way to the market a little too early before the
chemicals used in preserving them dissipate, due to the poor knowledge the
farmer has on the use of chemicals used on the farm. Debris is sometimes added
to cowpea to make it plenty, by doing this, customers don’t get the value for
what they paid for.
FRUITS
Fruit
consumed are meant to enrich the body but most fruit consumed by individuals
are always ripened using calcium carbide (ethylene) which can cause some health
hazards like cancer to the consumer. Fruit ripened with calcium carbide also
affect the property of the fruit such as taste, colour and feel.
DRY SPICES
Some
of the dry spices we use such as dry pepper, turmeric and all have often been
found to contain some other substances. Some grinded dry pepper are made by
grinding pepper seed and mixing it with colorants to give a reddish grinded
pepper while turmeric is being mixed with corn to also increase its quantity.
To
have a grinded dry pepper that is of good quality, always buy your pepper and
grind it yourself. That way, you'll be sure you're taking the right stuff.
HONEY
In
an attempt to do away with sugar, some people opt for honey. Unfortunately,
some of the products we buy are diluted with cheap sweeteners, like
high-fructose corn syrup.
Make
sure you purchase your honey from a trusted source
FROZEN CHICKEN
Some of the frozen chickens on sale
in our markets are either injected with steroids to increase them in size
within a short period of time or preserved with chemicals. Most of the frozen
chicken can also be from a dead hen.
You have only been a victim of these
killer products for this long because you have long been uninformed.
Remember, your health is your wealth.
Practice farm to table feeding.
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